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SUBJECT: WHITE, JOSEPH TIMOTHY, PFC, 492-860-2196, DPOS: 5 NOV 61,
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A. MSG, IAGPA-OP-1, 0912407 SEP 82, SAB.

CE HAD NO OBJECTION TO THE RELEASE OF HIS IDENTITY TO

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2. (U) ON 10_SEP_82, JOSEPH C..MERLINO, 027-54-4638, 2LT., USAR.

DPOB: 26 APR™GZ, “BOSTON MA~-COMPANY.- “h,-20- BATTALION, 104TH. INFANTRY
MASSACHUSETTS-ARMY..NATIONAL GUARD) - “WAS INTERVIEWED AT THE UNIVERSITY
‘OF MASSACHUSETTS CAMPUS, AMHERST, MA, CONCERNING SUBJECT. SOURCE
PROVIDED SUBSTANTIALLY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: (MSG PARA 3 THRU 12
3. (U) MERLINO-FIRST-MET. WHITE-ON .28.AUG-80, WHEN BOTH ARRIVED AT
KEMPER MILITARY SCHOOL & COLLEGE (KMSC), BOONVILLE, WISSOURT, AS
FRESHMEN (PLEBES), ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT COMPANIES. .MERLINO‘S-LAST
CONTACT_WITH “WHITE WAS ON. ABOUT. 26 SEP -B1, TWO DAYS BEFORE WHITE”
“DROPPED” OUT OF ASC THROUGHOUT ACADEMIC, YEAR. 60=81-AND- MO cas IGk

THEY ALSO MET BRIEFLY AT THE AIRBORNE SCHOOL, FT BENNING, GEORGIA, IN
JULY 1981, THEY WERE WELL ACQUAINTED, BUT WERE NOT CLOSE PERSONAL
FRIENDS.

4. (C) KERLIHO DID NOT KNOW OF WHITE'S FAMILY BACKGROUND OR FINAN-
CIAL SITUATION, ALTHOUGH WHITE DID_NOT-APPEAR. TO HAVE. ANY. FINANCIAL
WOR_DID_MERLING_KNO IF WHITE USED NARCOTICS:-OR- ABUSED”
“ALCOHOL. WHITE” WAS” PHYSICALLY™ REAL THY-AND”FIT, BUT NOT ATHLETIC. HE
DID-NOT_ APPEAR..TO-HAVEANY_DEVIANT_ SEXUAL. TENDENCIES. OR..HANG=UPS,..10

TNOIVIOUAL” WHO" VALUED: HIS.-OWN HONE STY_AND_ INTEGRITY HE WAS ~EXCEPT~

TOALLY-BRIGHT. AND CONSISTENTLY. EARNED-HIGH-GRADES.IW.ACADEMIC SUB-
JECTS AND MILITARY SCIENCE.

5. (C) WHITE WAS ALSO A VERY SERIOUS, EXTREMELY INTENSE, AND HIGHLY
IOEALISTIC. PERSON... HE WAS-USUALLY-HILD=MARNERED. BUT WOULD’ GET” ~”
“QUITECAGITATED-DURING SERIOUS. DISCUSSIONS: IN PAPERS HE WROTE AND
DURING” DISCUSSIONS IN HISTORY CLASS, .HE-EARNESTLY_DEFENOED_THE.MARX-
TN OTHER DISCUSSIONS” HE” REVEALED -AN—
"ADMIRATION.FOR-HOM- ADOLF HITLER. HARNESSED -THE ENERGIES. AND. HATIONAL-

“WADE” WHITE THE BUTT OF OERTSION AND PRANKS AT XNSC.
-CIZED_AND UNIVERSALLY DISLIKED.

FOR WHOM HE HAD LOST RESPECT. THIS TENDENCY LEO TO AN

INCIDENT AT ROTC ADVANCED CAMP AT FORT RILEY, KANSAS, IN THE SUMMER
OF 81, WHEN WHITE REFUSED TO OBEY A CADET'S ORDER (WO FURTHER INFOR-
MATION), AND WAS ALMOST BOARDED OUT OF THE CAMP.

7. (C) WHITE'S SERIOUSNESS, INTELLIGENCE, AND INTENSITY SEEMED
THREATENING TO SOME CADETS AT KMSC. HE TENDED. TO REMAIN ALOOF FROM
HIS PEERS. O€ TOP OF THIS, HI5-POOR. “SKIN COMPLEX 10N;= NERVOUS” MANNERS
TSMS,_AND ERRATIC.DRESS ( ONE DAY - EAT, THE NEXT"OAY ~~ SHABBY)
HE-WASOSTRA-
HIS PEER RATING AT ROTC ADVANCED

“CAMP"WAS"REPGRTEO-T0-BE-LOW.--—

8. (C) WHITE .TRIED-HARD-T0- SUCCEED. IN.EVERYTHING_HE.DID. HOWEVER,
HIS SELF-ESTEEM WAS CONSTANTLY BATTERED BY THE ATTITUDES OF HIS PEERS
AND A STRING OF DISAPPOINTMENTS. DURING HIS FIRST YEAR AT KMSC HE
GOT INTO SEVERAL FIGHTS WITH OTHER CADETS., ALSO, HIS GIRLFRIEND (NFI)
BROKE-OFF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, ALLEGEDLY” UNDER PRESSURE FROM HER
PARENTS. (WHITE PAPERED A MYRIAD OF PICTURES OF HER ON HIS DORMITORY
WALL.) WHITE DATED SELDOM, IF AT ALL. ONE OF HIS INSTRUCTORS, &
CAPTAIN DAVID, REPORTEDLY GAVE WHITE A ZERO FOR TURNING IN A PAPER
LATE, BUT DID NOT PENALIZE OTHERS WHO HAD DONE SO, AS SEVERELY.

CPT DAVID WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO EITHER LIKED OR HATED OTHERS,
a TT SEEMED THAT HE DISLIKED WHITE INTENSELY FOR UNKNOWN REASORS.

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TSW-OE-THE GERMAN_PEOPLE. HOWEVER, WHITE-DID-NOT APPEAR TO-8E PRI- = BY CDA Lo-@ .3Cute FOWPO |
HATI-OR-ANTI=SEMITIC. IN FACT, Hé_,SEEMED-TO-BE” SYMPATHETIC TO HIN-
“ORTTY-GROUPS IN"THE'U:S. . AND THEDR 810" FOR EQUALITY.“ =~ AUTH Para 1-603 DOD 5200.1F
<g~"(C) WHITE NEVER. SHOWED ANY DISLOYALTY TO THE U.S., ALTHOUGH DUR-
ING CONVERSATIONS” HE WOULD-CONSTRUCTIVELYCRITICIZE. AND_CRITIQUE
“BOTH AMERICAN SOCIETY. ANDTHE SOVIET-GOVERIMENT': HE TALKED SERIOUSLY OY
“ES THOUGH HE’ HAD HIS OWN” PROGRAMS” FOR IMPROVING THE LOT OF OTHER t
PEOPLE, WHITE:NORMALLY-RESPECTED. SUPERIORS .ANO. THEIR-AUTHORTTY, AS A P
LONG AS THEY MADE SENSE TO HIM. BUT, HE WOULD BALI” AT-O6EYING SCMEONE f
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9. (C) AFTER WHITE'S NEAR FAILURE AT ROTC ADVANCED CAMP,—HE-WAS-RE-
-CVCLED-AT_ATRBORNE. SCHOOL-FOR-FAILING-THE-PTTEST. HOWEVER, “HE
RECOVERED AND COMPLETED THE COURSE. WHEN HE RETURNED TO KMSC IW
SEP Bi, HE WAS DEEPLY UPSET UPON LEARNING THAT HE WAS ONLY A CADET
SERGEANT FIRST CLASS AND NOT AN OFFICER. WHITE WAS IN SOURCE'S
COMPANY (SOURCE WAS A CADET MAJOR). ON ONE OCCASION, DURING LEADER-
SHIP LAB, SOURCE CORRECTED WHITE WHO WAS IMPROPERLY EXECUTING THE
HIGH AND’ LOW CRAWLS. WHITE REACTED INDIGNANTLY AT FIRST? BUT AFTER
SOURCE EXPLAINED WHAT HE DID WRONG, WHITE ADJUSTED AND CONTINUED TO ~
PERFORM. ALSG IN SEP 81, ANOTHER CADET (NEI) TOOK ONE OF
WHITE'S BOOKS FROM HIS ROOM . VIOLENTLY ANGRY, WHITE DRAPED TOILET
PAPER ON THE CADET'S DORMITORY OOOR AND SET IT ON FIRE. SOURCE
CAUGHT WHITE IN THE ACT OF SETTING THE BLAZE AND LAUGHING ABOUT IT.
MERLINO VERBALLY CENSURED WHITE AKO THREATENED TO GET HIM DISMISSED
FROM KMSC. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, WHITE AOVISED THAT HE WANTED TO
LEAVE SCHOOL. HE WAS COUNSELED 8Y COLONEL JOHNNY PARKER, SCHOOL
COMMANDANT. PARKER ASKED SOURCE FOR HIS RECOMMENDATION. SOURCE
SYMPATHIZED WITH HHITE BUT COULD NOT RECOMMEND HIM FOR A COMMISSION
IN THE US ARMY BECAUSE OF HIS APPARENT IMMATURITY.
40. (C) AROUND 26 SEP 81, BEFORE WHITE LEFT KMSC, HE TOLD SOURCE HE
WAS LEAVING THE SCHOOL. WHITE SAID HE DID NOT WANT TO BE AN OFFICER,
BECAUSE HE WAS “FED UP WITH THE BULLSHIT AND THE ASS-KISSING™. KE
ADDED THAT HE-WAS GOING TO ENLIST-IN-THE-ARMY..AND -BECOME.°THE BEST...
_DAWN-NCO_HE-COULD-BE.~~ BY HIS COMMENTS “AND HIS”TONE”OF VOICE DURING
THIS-AND-OTHER-CONVERSATIONS, WHITE INDICATED THAT HE WASN'T GETTING
WHAT HE DESERVED FROM SOCIETY. SOURCE WISHED HIM LUCK AND NEVER SAW
OR HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN,
11. (C) SOURCE-WAS-NOT.-TOTALLY--SURPRISED-WHEN-HE..READ-OF-WHITE:'S
DEEECTION-TO-NORTH-KOREA.. IT SEEMED TO FIT-IN WITH HIS PERSONALITY,
SOURCE GUESSED THAT WHITE'S ACTION RESULTED FROM THE CULMINATION OF
HIS DISAPPOINTHENTS.  WHITE-PROBABLY-BECAME-DIS ILLUSIONED_WITH-THE,
'ARMY-OR_HIS_UNTT-AND_HAQ” PROBABLY_ENTERTAINED-THOUGHTS-ABOUT
‘DEFECTING-FOR;SOME-TIME. HOWEVER, —IT-WAS-MOST-LIKELY- ONE. PARTICULAR.
"TNC IDENT THAT-PROMPTED-HIM-TO-TAKE” ACTION: NHERE-ONCE-WHITE-WAS “A,
FATLURESIN-U-S=- SOCIETY..-HE-GAINED-NOTORIETY- AND-AN INTERNATIONAL
AUDTENCE THROUGH-HIS: DEFECTION: SOURCE -BELIVEO-THAT_THE TEXT-OF
THE-REMARKS-ATTRIBUTED_10-WHITE-BYTHE GOVERNMENT OF_NORTH KOREA.
SOUNDED-LIKE_NHITES-WORDS-AND-MANNER=OF- SPEECH, “AND_COULD_VERY WELL.

"HAVE BEEN-AUTHORED-BY-WHITE AT, LEAST THEY PARALLELED-WHITE’S“~——*
IDEALISTIC” BUT NAIVE SOCIO=POLITICAL VIEWS. ;
12. (U) OTHER SOURCES FROM KMSC WHO KNEW WHITE BETTER OR WHO COULD

CONTRIBUTE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED: COL JOHNNY PARKER, ‘

~ (TEL: 816-882-5623), RICHARD J. HATCH, 2LT USAR, A NATIVE OF PENN- REG CLASSyIeD
SYLVANIA, WHO KNEW WHITE BETTER THAN ANYONE, CAPTAIN NICHAEL R. N é
BASISTA, SGM JAMES MCKANE, AND MSG STEPHEN 6. HINK. BY CDA UO 308" en.

13. (UW) 2OC-FOR-THIS~REPORT—IS-S/ Ac ALFRED-M=~MEMOLE-—FORT_DEVENS, ~ AUTH Pare 7. robte FOUPO
<RESIDENT-OFFICE,, AV 756-2001, (ON LEAVE 13 THRU 17 SEP 82). - ara

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